California is at a tipping point. Severe budget deficits, unsustainable pension costs, heavy taxes, cumbersome regulation, struggling cities, and distressed public schools are but a few of the challenges that policymakers must address for the state to remain a beacon of business innovation and economic opportunity. City Journal has for years been cataloging the political and economic issues of our nation's largest metropolitan areas, and in this collection compiled and introduced by City J...

Regency London is not all romance, society balls and dashing dukes - and magistrates' constable Sam Plank is more than aware of it.In this new mystery set in 1825, Constable Sam Plank suspects there may be a link between a suicide, an embezzler, an arsonist and a thief. No corner of Regency London is untouched by these crimes, as he travels from the mansions of St James’s back to his own childhood haunts among the dank alleyways of Wapping. As his steadfast wife be...

It’s 1824 in London and all financial crime leads straight to the scaffold. So why does Henry Fauntleroy steal everything from his own bank – and why does he confess so readily to his crime?World-weary magistrates’ constable Sam Plank knows only too well that Regency London is not all romance, society balls and dashing dukes. Sent to arrest Henry Fauntleroy, Constable Plank is determined to find out why the banker has risked his reputation, his banking house – and ...

Although set in the early twenty-first century, this story resonates today. The main protagonists, Cecil and John, represent characters who have lived through the tumultuous sixties and seventies and rolled with the changes in the late twentieth century. Despite their different life journeys, they re-established a bond first devloped during their youth in South Philadelphia of the fifties.The strains of race and culture test the ties of friendship between the two men and their fami...